Here’s an excellent video of N gauge trains from a member of the East Valley Lines, N Scale Model Railway Club based in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, CA. The layout is very impressive and no attention to detail has been spared. Featured in the video is the full Kato Super Chief, a Kato Amtrak Superliner, and two freight engines.
Here's a good article about making a backdrop for your model trains O scale, N gauge trains or for that matter, any train gauge layout. This is something I've been thinking of doing for a while but I didn't feel I had the skill to do. However, after reading this article about making backdrops, it doesn't seem so daunting.
Do you need a backdrop for your layout? Almost everyone who has a shelf type layout or a wall-hugging around-the-room type layout will need some kind of background to enhance their scenery and to create the proper environment in which to show and operate their trains.Even if you have a small freestanding, tabletop layout, you may wish to have a barrier, or flat 2-sided divider, running down the middle of the layout in order to create the effect of trains moving long distances from one locale to a completely different area with different scenery on one side of the layout vs. the other.Click here for the rest of the article.